State v. Nelson

Hatcher, Judge:

Defendant was arrested with hands, clothes and shoes freshly bloodied, as he attempted to run from a barn where three hogs, belonging to another, had just been surreptitiously butchered; and he was convicted and sentenced for their larceny. He contends that the evidence was insufficient to convict him, and that no aspor-tation of the hogs was proved.

Defendant’s admitted explanations to the arresting officer of his presence at the barn, first, that he was just “going through that way”, and later, that he “came by there hunting” (he had no gun), and his explanation to the jury of…